This magnificent programming language genealogy tree from Wikipedia, which was created by Maximilian Dörrbecker and which ends in 2008 so it is missing a bunch of stuff, gives a pretty good overview ...

This general-purpose computer programming language intends to let application developers “write once, run anywhere” and is completing two successful decades this year. According to Oracle ...

The first release of the Java programming language was introduced in 1995 after four years of development. Java was initially called Oak, named for a tree outside the office of Java’s creator ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking ...

Java's popularity continued to decline this month, almost clearing the path for Python to snatch its spot as the world's second most popular programming language, according to Tiobe's latest ...

Some of the most important languages to know are JavaScript, Java, C, and more. Business Insider compiled a list of 16 programming languages that can give you an edge in your career. "Software is ...

Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz successfully ran the first program written in their newly developed BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language on the college's ...